(Jan 2001-2004. FINISHED) FEEL. Joint EU-project with Department of Computer and System Sciences at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan and IAM at University of Southampton, GB.
The main objective of the project is to deal with the problem of the intrusiveness of today's mobile technology and how work in local environments can be enhanced by introducing the idea of non-intrusive services realised partly by disappearing computer environments. The background for the project is the conflict between activities in the local physical and social context and parallel activities in distributed contexts.
(2001. FINISHED) Awake. The Awake project investigated
methods for increasing the social awareness in telecom services. The
specific focus was on mobile phone usage among youths. The project
designed and developed four concept demonstrators, one of which was
submitted for patenting, and, subsequently, granted a Swedish
patent. Awake was a joint project between SICS and TeliaSonera.
The patented invention gives mobile users the ability to view,
display conspicuously, and enter other users' ongoing telephone
calls. Other users' phone calls-either person to person, or
multi-part-are shown on the terminal display, and also as lighted
diodes on a diode strip along the sides of the user's phone. Only
ongoing phone calls of persons included in the user's phone book are
included. The ever changing visual display enables the user to
quickly assess the overall social (phone) activity of his or her
friends and acquaintances, and by pushing on the diodes more
information and interaction alternatives are displayed for each
call; the user can send voice or text messages into any ongoing call
and even ask for entry into the call, which participants in the call
may accept or refuse.
(October 2000-2003. FINISHED) Service Designer. In a associated effort, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and IBM, are pushing SOAP as a new standard for program interoperability. SOAP, an XML-based protocol for connecting web-services, will allow web sites and web based services to be reached by computer programs in stead of by humans through web browsers. Work is proceeding to integrate SOAP with the Apache server as well as the Microsoft .Net initiative.
At SICS, we believe the question of how users will access these services is paramount. Consequently, we are in the process of integrating SOAP support into our user service platform sView, and our first result is the Service Designer component. Service Designer allows a user to visually create his of her own customized interface to any one or several SOAP based web services. This interface in effect becomes a new sView service which may be published and shared among sView users.
(July 2000-2002. FINISHED) Context Simulator. The QuakeSim context simulator uses Quake III Arena to evaluate, test, and demonstrate context aware services. Context, such as users position or activity, is simulated in Quake and provided to real-world services as real data. QuakeSim allows simulated and actual context information to be used interchangeably in real services. See publications list.
(July 2000-2001. FINISHED) FamilyLink. Joint project with Ericsson Research in Kista. The project will investigates and designs IT-support for family life. The two main issues of the project are to develop real and prototype applications and services demonstrating technology enabled social awareness and to investigate the platform requirements needed to create applications and services for the family. The latter includes making the service platforms developed by OASIS (Sview) and OSGi compatible, and continuously discussing general features of open service platforms.
(July 2000-2002. FINISHED) GeoNotes allows users to mass-annotate physical locations with virtual 'notes' which are pushed to other users when they come into the vicinity of the location. See publications list.
(Jan 2000-) sView. The sView system makes networked services available to users in an environment that is close to the user. It allows services to collaborate and further research will be done in the area of human assisted service collaboration using sView as a platform.
(1998.FINISHED) sicsDAIS. For my Licentiate I created the sicsDAIS system for interaction with multiple services/agents.
(1998.FINISHED) IntAge. In it, We explored ideas of building agent architectures, as well as agent applications on top of the architectures. I received my Licentiate degree as a result of my work in IntAge.
(1997.FINISHED) KIMSAC.
KIMSAC is Kiosk-based Integrated Multimedia Service Access for
Citizens.
I have been responsible for realising the architecture
of the user-interface end of the system. There were a number of
publications in this project.
(1995.FINISHED) The PUSH project has now come to an end. It is a multi-modal, adaptive, interactive on-line help system. We wrote a paper on "A WWW Interface to an Adaptive Hypermedia System" in this project. I also did my masters in this project.